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Staff Serjeant RICHARD WILLIAM WEST

Service Number: 926508
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C.

2nd Wing

Date of Death

Died 06 October 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

24. A. 9.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elisebeth Ethel West, of Westbourne, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription WITH OTHER COMRADES BY YOUR SIDE, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE, FOR US YOU DIED
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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